Paul wrote:

Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
I use Notepad everyday, all through the day, consistently since the Windows
9x days of lore and legend - back when it was the wild and wooly web, when
you had only the two knobs, horizontal and vertical, to turn in order to
make images on the screen and if you made a mistake, you had to turn it
upside down and shake it to start all over... or so it seems... anyway,

As of Windows 10 update to Version 1809, OS Build 17763.1; and its
subsequent "fix" to Version 1809, OS Build 17763.55, Notepad's code got
corrupted.

With Notepad's Format set to Word Wrap, Randomly, when I copy text to
Notepad, at the line break, it will randomly cut a word in the interior of
the word and continue the word on the next line. Any attempt to correct it
and reconnect the word on the appropriate line results in a bevy of
cascading format errors which requires a manual edit of the entire
paragraph, line by line.

This has to be traceable to some minor change some programmer made to the
Notepad code in this latest major update from v1803 to v1809, right?
snip

You should not complain so loudly.

They did open up the source and make actual improvements
to Notepad. On previous OSes, Notepad was just shipped
without dealing with any issues it has.

It's now faster than it used to be. The Replace function
is fixed, and is lightning fast. It's finally faster than
BBEdit :-/

*******

In Cortana, type "Hub" and see what results.

I use Hub in Insider Edition, but I don't know if it is
ready for your input on Release versions. Test and see.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/window...ays-microsoft/

You can use Hub to report software problems. The
hardest part of using it, is selecting a "category"
to file the problem under. There never seems to be
a correct category for stuff.

Paul

Long ago when dinosaurs still roamed the planet and we had to deal with
a DOS kernel even if as an alternative kernel, Notepad had a maximum
filesize limit of 54KB that it could open. Actually, it could edit 45KB
and if the file was bigger (up to 54KB) then you couldn't edit the file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Notepad

That gives some history regarding the maximum filesize that NotePad can
handle. The article mentions other changes to NotePad. In another
reply, I already gave a link to the release article that describes
recent changes to NotePad.

The wiki article also mentions, "Notepad accepts text from the Windows
clipboard. When clipboard data with multiple formats is pasted into
Notepad, the program only accepts text in the CF_TEXT format." I asked
in my other reply from just what source the OP was copying "text" (or
what he thought was just text).